Monday, November 4, 2013

Teacher Appreciation Week!

Door Decorating idea.
Well, I'm not going to say this was an easy idea for a door, but it was fun.
The monkey was made in a few different pieces using brown and tan poster boards. I cut out a circle for the head and smaller circles for the ears. Then just kind of used the head circle to create the tan face design, and made smaller circles for the insides of the ears. The hands I traced from my five year olds hands and attached them to the arms which were just cut strips of the poster board. The belly isn't much bigger than what you see hiding behind the leaves (it was a weird egg shape, with a smaller tan egg shape over top). 
The leaves were made from green butcher paper. I folded pieces of butcher paper in half and drew what I thought the leaves should look like, then cut them out, unfolded them and viola'... leaves. For the bushes I also used butcher paper and just made random bushy scallops. 
If you have a Cricut Machine then making the letters will be easy for you, if not, I would recommend just finding some paper letters and using those. I did use a Cricut machine for the letters AND the bananas, although I had to tweak a moon shape because I didn't have a banana.
Overall, it was a pretty fun door to make...a little time consuming, but fun!

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Staching through the snow!

Well since it's all the rage, I thought I'd hop on the bandwagon and join the Mustache craze!


I found the cutest mustache candy molds online and HAD to get them!!! They are not for making hard candies like suckers (because the heat of the candy will melt them), but they are perfect for melted chocolate... and who couldn't use a chocolate mustache (am I right)?
Anyway, I bought two different types of meltable chocolate. The first was a Kroger brand Candy Coating Chocolate in a convenient microwavable tray. I just followed the instructions and it worked awesome. The second chocolate was Wilton brand Candy Melts, these worked great too (I melted them in smaller increments). I believe you can also buy melting chocolate disks by the pound from places like Orson Gigi or Winco (Winco has great prices too).
I melted the chocolate and spooned it into the mold with lollipop sticks already resting IN the mold (the ones I poured, then added the sticks to, pushed the chocolate down around the stick-if that makes sense). After I poured all my molds I put them in the fridge for about 20 minutes. It was super easy and they popped right out.
I took the completed lollies and lined/stacked them up (in the amount I needed for each gift) in cellophane bags. As for the tags...well I made them (with a little help from Summer Time Designs' Believe Kit) but -because I like you, and I'm cool like Mr. Mustache Tom Selleck, I will post them below and you can use them.
Okay, now that I've written a novel, I MUSTACHE you to forgive my babbling and SHAVE this to your Pinterest page or desktop or whatever! :{





Yes there are two versions. The version I made and printed had THRU and not THROUGH. Although I prefer THROUGH, it fit funny when I only wanted two lines of text, so I went with THRU because my designer brain wanted to. So there. But for you english buffs I made a THROUGH one just for you! 
By the way, the font is Baskerville in BOLD if you want to put it into Photoshop or another computer program and add your family's name at the bottom...or there should be plenty of space for you to hand write it in.

Monday, November 12, 2012

Autumn Awesome-ness


Just a couple of SPOOKtacular word art signs to LEAF you satisfied for a time!

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Words of Love

I love words. Especially finding ways to make words look more interesting than they are. Since my early classes in college, I've loved all types of typography, and over the years have created a variety of interesting things. I've loved to make what everyone lately is calling "subway art" and I most recently have enjoyed making these little babies...
These are words of love and encouragement for two separate couples on their very special day.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Here is a little something I made for a dear friend of mine. Both her mom and mother-in-law are teachers and she found this great quote from David O. McKay about teachers and wanted to give it to these great women in her life. I thought I'd put in up on here in case anyone else wanted to do the same, or maybe use it for a teacher at the end of the school year. Whatever!